Published at: 27/03/2024 09:00 PM

• On March 21, 1967, during the government of Raúl Leoni, the lawyer, radio broadcaster and leader of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), Bartolomé Vielma Hernández, disappeared.
• Four years earlier, the renowned lawyer had been arrested, during the Government of Rómulo Betancourt, for his political militancy and his participation in El Porteñazo.
• Vielma Hernández was last seen at T.O.5 in Yumare, edo. Yaracuy, by Rosa Elena Petit, sister of guerrilla leader Dimas Petit Colina, who spoke personally with the missing father of the family.
• His wife, Haydeé Ríos de Vielma, a medical student at the University of Carabobo (UC), toured all the OT or anti-guerrilla camps, as well as the Digepol and SIFA cells. And faced with the refusal of the police forces to recognize this disappearance, he declared: “I think that the same thing may have happened to Professor Alberto Lovera, who all the police forces and government bodies denied knowing his whereabouts and then appeared dead, as has happened with many political prisoners in open violation of Human Rights.”
• In fact, Vielma Hernández has been missing for 57 years and until now, after almost six decades, her relatives and children are not aware of her whereabouts.
• After lengthy procedures and compliance with all the provisions of the law, in 2007, 40 years later, he was officially declared dead by a court of the republic, without the possibility of knowing or punishing the perpetrators of such an abominable crime.
• But it turns out that calling him officially and legally deceased is an ironic understatement when, without a doubt, that smiling boy from Puerto Cabello, married and father of two daughters, was tortured and murdered.
• Her oldest daughter Barthide was six years old when she disappeared, and her younger sister Vilma Vielma Ríos was three months old.

Mazo News Team